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Chapter 6 Flashcards

1
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In order to understand cognitive development in infancy, we need to understand…

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motor development

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It is important to recognize typical development in order to be able to recognize …

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deviance (progression or regression)

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Most newborn infants exhibit _______ and ______ movements.

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  • spontaneous

- reflexive

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Toddler movements = _____, while Infancy,childhood movements =

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  • motor milestones

- gross motor movements become more refined

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In newborns, some movements seem ______ and without _____, and appear without any apparent ______.

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  • undirected
  • purpose
  • stimulation
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6
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Often times, newborns move in a specific way every time they are ______ in a certain place.

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touched

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Infants are born with _____ that seem to slowly disappear as they age. They move with _____ actions that tie into _____ _____ and _____ ____ later on in life.

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  • reflexes
  • discrete
  • motor milestones
  • intentional movement
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Newborn movement classified into 2 general categories:

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  • random/spontaneous movements

- infantile reflexes

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Spontaneous movements

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  • infants’ movements that occur without any apparent stimulation
  • seem very different from walking, reaching
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Examples of spontaneous movements:

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  • squirm
  • thrust legs or arms
  • stretch fingers and toes
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Supine =

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laying on back

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Supine kicking:

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spontaneously thrust their legs when in supine position

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13
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Supine kicking is associated with what motor milestone?

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walking

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Through analysis of position, timing, and muscular activity, they found that supine kicking is…

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  • rhythmical
  • kicks have a coordinated pattern
  • ankle, knee, and hip joints move cooperatively, not independently
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15
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Supine kicking resembles _____ and _____ of an adult walking step.

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  • positioning

- timing

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How does supine kicking differ from walking?

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  • infant’s timing is more variable from kick to kick
  • infants tend to move joints in unison rather than in sequence
  • cocontraction for infants while adults alternate
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Cocontraction:

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infants tend to activate both the muscles for flexing the limb (flexors) and the muscles for extending the limb (extensors)

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In regards to supine kicking, by the end of the first year, infants..

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  • begin to move hip, knee, ankle sequentially
  • both alternating and synchronous kicks after 6 months
  • developing more ways of coordinating 2 limbs
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Newborn’s spontaneous arm movements show well-coordinated ______ of _____, _____, and _____ joints.

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  • extension
  • elbow
  • wrist
  • finger
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20
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Spontaneous arm movements are not as _____ and ______ as leg kicks.

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  • rhythmical

- repetitive

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Early arm thrusts are not identical to adult reaching movements, as it takes infants several months to…

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begin opening their fingers independently of the other joints in anticipation of grasping objects

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22
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Arm spontaneous movements appear to be influenced by _____ constraints.

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environmental

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23
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Rhythmic flapping of arms, kicking of legs have been termed ______, because of …

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  • stereotypes

- the underlying temporal structure of the movements

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24
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Other stereotypes of newborn movements:

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  • head and face (eg. head banging)

- fingers (eg. flexing fingers)

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25
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Stereotypes suggest that newborns may be…

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  • weak

- unable to produce intentional, precise, goal-directed movements

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Unlike random movements, infantile reflexes are…

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  • involuntary movements that an individual makes in response to a specific stimuli
  • sometimes these responses occur only when the body is in a specific position
  • stereotypical movement response to a specific stimulus
  • only seen during infancy
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3 types of infantile reflex:

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  • primitive reflexes
  • locomotor reflexes
  • postural reactions
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Primitive reflex:

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involuntary response to a specific stimulation that is often mediated by lower brain centres

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29
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Generally, newborns exhibit ____ reflexes at birth. These reflexes tend to lose their strength over time until they disappear around ____ months.

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  • strong

- 4

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30
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Primitive reflexes vs. spontaneous movements:

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Reflexes:
- Responses to specific external stimuli
- Specific, often localized
- Same stimulus will elicit a specific reflex over and over again
Spontaneous movements:
- Do not result from any apparent external stimuli
- Non specific, generalized

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Primitive reflexes examples:

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  • palmar grasp

- asymmetric tonic neck reflex

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Postural reactions aka

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gravity reflexes

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33
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Postural reactions help the infant _______ maintain posture in a changing ______.

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  • automatically

- environment

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34
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Postural reactions generally appear after the infant is ___ months old.

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2

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35
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By late in ____ year, these isolated postural reactions ____ ____ of their repertoire of movements.

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  • first year or early in second year

- drop out

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36
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Locomotor reflex:

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  • Appears similar and related to a voluntary movement
  • Appear much earlier than the corresponding voluntary behaviours
  • Typically disappear months before the infant attempts the voluntary locomotor skill
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37
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3 locomotor reflexes:

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  • stepping
  • swimming
  • crawling
38
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Primitive reflexes start to weaken or become modified after about ___ weeks, when infants learn to _____ their reflexes and ____ the movement outcome.

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  • 2
  • adapt
  • modify
39
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Those who work with infants sometimes use a ____ __ _____ _____ and _____ to assess an individual infant’s development.

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pattern of reflex appearance and disappearance

40
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If the reflexes appear and disappear at an age close to the average, they consider the infant’s development _____.

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typical

41
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Deviation from the typical pattern and typical execution may occur in 2 ways:

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  • exhibiting a reflex when the individual should not

- not exhibiting a reflex when the individual should

42
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A reflex that persists well after the average age of disappearance may indicate…

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a pathological cerebral condition

43
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Nonexistent or very weak response on one side of the body compared with the other could reflect…

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a pathological condition

44
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Babinski test:

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  • running a probe along the bottom of the foot
  • used to check for neurological problems in patients with head injuries
  • normal = toe flexion
45
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Positive sign in babinski test:

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  • babinski reflex as seen in infancy has returned
  • patient most likely has injury to the CNS
  • toes pull upward instead of flexing
46
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Why do we have to be careful when attempting to assess the neurological status of an infant?

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  • one infant may continue exhibiting reflexes without any pathological condition being involved
  • most infants are ahead or behind the average ages
  • difficult to establish exact time reflex disappears
  • reflexive responses are very sensitive to environmental conditions
47
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Several reflexes appear as soon as…

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2-3 months in utero

48
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3 Roles of reflexes:

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  • structural
  • functional
  • applied
49
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Structural role of reflexes:

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  • Views reflexes as a byproduct of the human neurological system
  • Reflexes reflect the structure of the nervous system
  • The way humans are wired
  • Consider reflexes at birth, nothing past
50
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Functional role of reflexes:

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  • Reflexes exist to help the infant survive (eat, breathe, grasp)
  • Fetus uses reflexes to position itself for birth, assist in the birthing process
51
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Applied role of reflexes:

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  • Examine the role of reflexes in future volitional movements
  • Different ideas depending on the theoretical viewpoints of researchers
52
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What did McGraw (1943) believe?

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Believed in motor interference theory: that infants could not move voluntarily until reflexes had been inhibited by the CNS

53
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What was Zelanzo’s (1972) experiment?

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  • Experiment challenged the notion that reflexes and voluntary movements are not related
  • Elicited stepping reflex daily in a small number of infants during first 8 weeks
  • Result: Increased stepping reflex
  • Result: Earlier onset of voluntary walking
  • Concluded that involuntary walking reflex could be transformed into voluntary walking
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Zelando (1972) proposed that…

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  • disappearance of reflex was due to disuse
  • The period of reflex inhibition before onset of voluntary skill is necessary
  • Systematic stimulation of a locomotor reflex could enhance infants’ acquisition of voluntary locomotion
55
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Thelen (1983-1991) questioned…

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whether reflexes had to be inhibited before voluntary movement could occur

56
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Thelen proposed that…

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Other constraints, rather than strictly maturation, may be related to the disappearance of the stepping reflex

57
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In Thelen’s research, she noticed that infants have a dramatic increase in ___ ____ (primarily from ____) during the first 2 months of life. What does this mean?

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  • leg weight
  • fat
  • corresponding increase in muscle strength
  • May cause the stepping reflex to disappear because infant has insufficient strength to lift now heavier legs
  • Strength may be a rate limiter for stepping after 2 months or so of infancy
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What did Thelen do in her experiment?

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  • ankle weights on infants to mimic weight gain resulted in reflex stepping decreasing
  • put older infants (no longer reflex stepping) in water (buoyant, mimics strengths) = steps with greater frequency, results similar to Zelazo
  • infants who did not reflexively step at 7 months did step when held over a treadmill
59
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Thelen concluded that…

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several individual constraints (rather than simply maturation) play a strong role as rate limiters on movement patterns during infancy

60
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An infant does not suddenly acquire a complex skill, they must…

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  • Must learn to coordinate and control the interacting parts of their body
  • Needs to attain certain fundamental skills that lead to skilled performance
61
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Motor milestone:

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  • A fundamental motor skill
  • Attainment which is associated with the acquisition of later voluntary movements
  • landmark or turning point in motor development
62
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Order in which an infant attains motor milestones is ______ _____, although ____ differs among individuals.

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  • relatively consistent

- timing

63
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Bayley and Shirley claimed _____ pattern of skill acquisition can be related to _____ ____ in _____ constraints that occur typically in developing infants.

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  • progressive
  • predictable changes
  • individual
64
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Bayley and Shirley’s progressive pattern of skill acquisition:

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  • maturation of CNS
  • development of muscular strength and endurance
  • development of posture and balance
  • improvement of sensory processing
65
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WHO: MGRS:

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  • multicentre growth reference study group (MGRS)
  • secular trend of milestones does not exist
  • Infants are currently attaining motor milestones at about the same age as infants did more than 80 years ago
  • Observation techniques used by Bayley and Shirley were valid and reliable
66
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_____ defined parental handling practices can alter the rate at which an infant attains motor milestones.

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culturally

67
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First child syndrome:

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  • cultural phenomenon in US
  • moms hold their babies for long periods and avoid putting the infants on their stomachs for a long time
  • results in delayed onset of certain motor milestones such as crawling
68
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Carbetta and Bojczyk showed that…… can act as a rate limiters for other skills.

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attainment of milestones themselves

69
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Carbetta and Bojczyk studied:

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  • Hand preferences
  • Once certain motor milestones were achieved, infants changed their hand preference and even reverted back to earlier forms of reaching (2 hands after walking)
  • likely for balance = rate limiter
70
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Although ______ exists in the acquisition of milestones, _____ ____ in several milestones may indicate a _____ _____.

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  • variability
  • substantial delay
  • developmental problem
71
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How can Down syndrome be detected with delay of milestones?

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  • hypertonia = lack of muscle tone = delayed acquisition of milestones (lots of milestones require strength = rate limiter)
  • floppy
  • often improves in later development
72
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Delays in milestones lead to delays in ….

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the attainment of fundamental motor skills (ex. walking, ADLs, eating)

73
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Infant mobility is important to early development, meaning any condition that _____ or _____ infant mobility may negatively affect _____ development.

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  • delays
  • impedes
  • cognitive
74
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Motor development and early movement influence both ____ and _____ development.

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  • social

- cognitive

75
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Some movements help create ____ pathways to the brain. This is critical in the first ___ years of life.

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  • neural

- 3

76
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Part of learning is discovering ____-_____ relationships in surroundings.

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cause-effect

77
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Independent locomotion provides infants and toddlers with…

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  • a way to control and explore their environment

- socially interact

78
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Many of the motor milestones of the first year of life involve the attainment of certain _____.

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postures

79
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Once infants can maintain a certain posture, they are ______.

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balancing

80
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Moving room technique:

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  • Seeing responses of babies in the middle of a room when the walls were moving
  • EMG
  • Visual information and the kinesthetic information were in conflict
  • Reacted to the visual information rather than the kinesthetic information
  • Responded as if their bodies were swaying and activated muscle to regain their starting posture
81
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What did Bertenthal, Rose, and Bai do?

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  • observed variety of babies in moving room at 2 different speeds
82
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What was found in the moving room experiment?

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  • visual info more than kinesthetic info
  • action linked to movement speed
  • responses improved with experience
  • standing infants sway or fall while adults can keep their balance
  • newly standing children take longer than adults to use postural muscles and attain stability
83
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… is not the rate-controlling factor in infant posture and balance.

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visual perception of self motion

84
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Rate controlling factor for posture control may be coupling of the _____ _____ with the appropriate _____ _____.

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  • sensory information

- appropriate response

85
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Once refined, _____ -______ couplings provide very sensitive and rapid adjustments to the _____.

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  • perception-action

- environment

86
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Infants move = _____ change = infant must regulate and refine their movements based on…

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  • environments

- continuous sensory information

87
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As systems develop and change, the _____ coupling must change as well to recalibrate to the _____.

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  • sensorimotor

- environment

88
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Barela, Jeka, and Clark studied touch control in infants as they reached 4 stages:

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  • pulling to stand
  • standing alone
  • beginning to walk
  • reaching 1.5 months of walking experience
89
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In Barela, Jeka, Clark study, in the first 3 stages the infants responded to body sway by…

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applying force to the surface

90
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In Barela, Jeka, Clark study: after infants gained walking experience, they used _____ ____ to control posture rather than simply react to ____.

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  • touch information

- sway

91
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_______ info plays a important role in posture and balance.

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somatosensory

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